Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture

Monica Tamariz

Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture

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This paper presents a Darwinian framework to study culture that formalises interactions between public and private, ontogenetic and phylogenetic as well as individual and social aspects of cultural evolution and transmission. It also compares and contrasts evolutionary milestones in the emergence of culture with major transitions in the evolution of life. We define two related processes in the evolution of culture: the cumulative encoding of innovative information into public culture and the ontogenetic development of cultural competences that allow humans to access and use that information. We claim that the capacity to create, learn and use symbols is a key factor underlying those processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology
Subtitle of host publication	Towards an Unified Darwinian Paradigm
Editors	Hernán Juan Muscio, Gabriel Eduardo José Lopez
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Archaeopress
Pages	103-110
Number of pages	8
Volume	20
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4073-0398-7
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Name	Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of the Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
Volume	20

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Cultural evolution
public representation
private representation
evolutionary transition

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Tamariz, M. (2009). Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture. In H. J. Muscio, & G. E. J. Lopez (Eds.), Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology: Towards an Unified Darwinian Paradigm (Vol. 20, pp. 103-110). (Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of the Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences; Vol. 20). Archaeopress.

Tamariz, Monica. / Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology: Towards an Unified Darwinian Paradigm. editor / Hernán Juan Muscio ; Gabriel Eduardo José Lopez. Vol. 20 Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009. pp. 103-110 (Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of the Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences).

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Tamariz, M 2009, Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture. in HJ Muscio & GEJ Lopez (eds), Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology: Towards an Unified Darwinian Paradigm. vol. 20, Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of the Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, vol. 20, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 103-110.

Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture. / Tamariz, Monica.
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology: Towards an Unified Darwinian Paradigm. ed. / Hernán Juan Muscio; Gabriel Eduardo José Lopez. Vol. 20 Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009. p. 103-110 (Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of the Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences; Vol. 20).

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